What is the best low-tech protocol to simulate drawing names out of a hat and ensure secrecy?

Question

Each year at Thanksgiving, my family has drawn names out of a hat to determine who they\'ll be a \"Secret Santa\" for the Christmas gift exchange. It\'s important to our fam

Answer 1

On OS X it is very easy to take advantage of the Text-to-speech engine, just by calling the "say " command line utility. There are also ways to do this in windows as well.

SO you could ring up whoever is on your list, tell them to listen for who they should buy a gift for, and put a headphone from the computer up to the telephone, as you tell your program to say the name associated with the person you are calling. They can then tell you if they heard it clearly and that it wasn't their spouse.